All Ireland Hurling Championship 2014

A few were even using an outlawed version in 2012. 2 scoops of Craze please.

If Galway were on performance enhancers I’d be looking for my fucking money back if I were the county board. So I would.

She looks like a thin version of HRH the dwarf chuckers’ wife.

FYP

I see Shane O 'Donnell has had to drop out of Clare’s next two games. Hmmm.

Maybe he is gone for that long overdue haircut.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/deise-halt-training-as-board-puts-clubs-first-265651.html

County board knifing McGrath. Nobody does infighting quite like Waterford. Having an external manager kept a lid on it for 15 years but the gloves are off now.

Do you reckon? It seems that counties that put the county first and postpone all the club matches get pilloried, and then the ones that don’t get pilloried too.

Its a cost-cutting exercise, they are just using the club championship as an excuse.

Jim McGuinness on the other hand, has gone the opposite way entirely and is now calling off Club league games. The Clubs are no better, rather than play the games without the intercounty players, they agreed to defer them. Fucking hell, what a way to treat Club players, they can’t even play league games anymore. Disgusting carryon by McGuinness and the County Board.

Of course the idiots who got us into the debt by bankrolling the Davy Fitz era and then doubling it up on the Jedward fiasco are still at the helm.

I reckon we’d give ye a run for it!

If the reasons weren’t financial it’d actually be a brave move and one the clubs would appreciate. Waterford have had severe difficulties in completing their club fixture programme in years that they were involved in the business end of the championship. If I recall correctly, they failed to field a team in some level of Munster Club a few years ago, Intermediate football possibly. I think the Limerick winners were drawn against them and ended up getting a bye.

It does, however, smack of financial constraints. On the other hand, there’s no way McGuinness should be allowed dictate fixtures like he’s doing in Donegal. The fact that the clubs agreed it renders a lot of their anti-Sky Sports arguments as bollixology.

[QUOTE=“Elvis Brandenberg Kremmen, post: 932687, member: 1624”]I reckon we’d give ye a run for it!

If the reasons weren’t financial it’d actually be a brave move and one the clubs would appreciate. Waterford have had severe difficulties in completing their club fixture programme in years that they were involved in the business end of the championship. If I recall correctly, they failed to field a team in some level of Munster Club a few years ago, Intermediate football possibly. I think the Limerick winners were drawn against them and ended up getting a bye.

It does, however, smack of financial constraints. On the other hand, there’s no way McGuinness should be allowed dictate fixtures like he’s doing in Donegal. The fact that the clubs agreed it renders a lot of their anti-Sky Sports arguments as bollixology.[/QUOTE]

Dromin athlacca got a bye to the Munster intermidate club final in 2007 as there was no Waterford representative

That’s the one. Cheers.

Fucking great move. Puts Waterford at a disadvantage because they are the only ones doing it but this should become mandatory for every county in Ireland. The current set up is a fucking joke with lads expected to postpone weddings, etc in case a clubmate gets on the intercounty panel or the senior team get a run through the qualifiers.

[QUOTE=“Elvis Brandenberg Kremmen, post: 932687, member: 1624”]I reckon we’d give ye a run for it!

If the reasons weren’t financial it’d actually be a brave move and one the clubs would appreciate. Waterford have had severe difficulties in completing their club fixture programme in years that they were involved in the business end of the championship. If I recall correctly, they failed to field a team in some level of Munster Club a few years ago, Intermediate football possibly. I think the Limerick winners were drawn against them and ended up getting a bye.

It does, however, smack of financial constraints. On the other hand, there’s no way McGuinness should be allowed dictate fixtures like he’s doing in Donegal. The fact that the clubs agreed it renders a lot of their anti-Sky Sports arguments as bollixology.[/QUOTE]
I don’t think Waterford have had an issue with running the hurling championship off since 1992 when Ballygunner had to play SMB away the day after the county final. With the greatest of respect I don’t think the current crop of county senior hurlers can be held accountable for the 2007 Intermediate Football championship.

Dromin Athlacca contested the 2007 Munster intermediate hurling final not football

I’m not blaming the players at all. They’re the ones who normally get rode and pulled from all angles.

It’s an institutional thing in most counties. When the county team is doing well, delegates want everything called off and want everything played when they’re struggling. There’s no balance.

The lack of collective preparation will hinder Waterford as I happen to think they’re better than most believe and would give them every chance of knocking off Cork in May. On the other hand, players will be getting decent club matches which may be worth more than constant training and meaningless challenge games.

Fuck weddings mate.